1. SUMMARY OF ALTERNATIVE BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR HEALTH
Budget Item NEP 2014
ABI Proposal
Variance
(ABI Proposal
less NEP)
INCREASED DEPLOYMENT OF HEALTH WORKERS FOR EFFECTIVE HEALTH
SERVICE DELIVERY
 Stepping up HHR deployment: increasing DTTB from 140 to 1,000; doubling deployment of
midwives, dentists, Pinoy MD scholars and MSPD; formalizing employment arrangements of
existing RNHeals (22,500) and deployment of additional 10,000 trainees.; including HHR
insurance and trainings
 Creation of National HHR Registry
 Improvement and Strengthening of HHR Monitoring and Evaluation
MFO 1: Implementation of Doctors
to the Barrios and Rural Health
Practice Program
2,969,867,000 8,374,552,113 5,404,685,113
MFO 1: Health Human Resource
Policy Development & Planning
 HHR National Registry (50 Million)
 HHR Monitoring and Eval (10 M)
126,101,000 186,101,000 60,000,000
A BILLION FOR HEALTH PROMOTION
 Public Awareness Campaign & Capacity Building for Health Workers: Healthy Lifestyle
& Well-being, Preventive Health Care through Organic Food, Healthy Eating Options, Physical Exercise
and Activities, Tobacco and Alcohol, Nutritional healing, Alternative Healing Modalities (Traditional,
Indigenous and Oriental), Breastfeeding, HR-based Health Care, Special health needs of vulnerable groups:
children, elderly, PWDs, women, indigenous peoples, victims of disasters, etc.; including accreditation of
community health teams and creation of mechanism for health promotion convergence.
 Institutionalization of Traditional & Alternative Medical Practices: Research and
development, standardization of herbal medicine preparations, and improvement of popular education
materials.
MFO 1: Health Promotion 165,227,000 1,165,227,000 1,000,000,000
MFO 1: Phil. Institute for Traditional
and Alternative Health Care
49,800,000 100,000,000 50,200,000
ENSURING BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 Strengthening children’s immune system through promotion of breastfeeding; formation of
breastfeeding vanguards
 Improved interventions to health care needs of children and youth, including concerns on
teenage pregnancy
 Addressing acute child malnutrition through piloting of community-managed acute malnutrition
(MAM) management in poorest municipalities. Interventions may start with NAPC-identified
poorest municipalities or in 5 poorest regions (.ARMM, CARAGA, CAR, Eastern Visayas,
SOKSCARGEN)
MMFO 1: Expanded Program on
Immunization
 Scrap allocation for Rotavirus Vaccine
2,841,933,000 2,341,433,000 (500,000,000)

2. (- P500 M)
MFO 1: Other infectious disease
and emerging and re-emerging
diseases including HIV/AIDS,
dengue, food and water-borne
diseases
 Neglected Tropical Diseases
(100 M)
781,702,000 791,702,000 100,000,000
MFO 1: Family Health and
Responsible Parenthood
 Breastfeeding Vanguards (500 M)
 Adolescents and Children (500 M)
 Community MAM management
 (P 1.5 M/mun x 609
municipalities = 913.5 M)
2,842,666,000 4,756,166,000 1,913,500,000
ENSURING ACCESS OF THE POOR TO FREE AND QUALITY PUBLIC
HOSPITAL SERVICE
 Doubling support to government specialty hospitals based on 2013 allocations to support needs
of indigent patients. Specialty hospitals attached to the DOH, especially the Phil. Children’s
Medical Center and Lung Center of the Philippines, have gained reputation as Poor Peoples
hospitals.
Philippine Children’s Medical
Center
 2013 level: Ph 345 M
345,000,000 690,000,000 345,000,000
Lung Center of the Philippines
 2013 level: Ph173.4 M
173,400,000 346,800,000 173,400,000
National Kidney and Transplant
Institute
 2013 level: P 202. 865 M
189,000,000 405,730,000 216,730,000
Philippine Heart Center
 2013 level: P 187 M
372,000,000 374,000,000 2,000,000
STRENGTHENING PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS ON HIV/AIDS
 Improved access and availability of HIV/AIDS services, including treatment, to key populations
 Elimination of barriers to life-saving services using community-based methodologies.
 Strengthening of systems and enabling policy environment around the issue of HIV/AIDS
MFO 1: Other infectious disease
and emerging and re-emerging
diseases including HIV/AIDS,
dengue, food and water-borne
diseases
781,702,000 979,115,000 197,413,000
MFO 1: Operations of Phil. National 12,201,000 37,201,000 25,000,000

3. AIDS Council (PNAC)
ADDRESSING FRAGMENTATION AND INEFFICIENCIES IN THE PUBLIC
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
 Formulation of a National Public Health Sector Strategy and Plan to as an initial step to address
fragmentation of health service delivery due to devolution; to include review and development
of people-centered, effective and efficient UHC framework and financing model.
MFO 3 : Health Policy
Development, including Essential
National Health Research
47,557,000 100,000,000 52,443,000
TOTAL PROPOSED AUGMENTATION (PhP): 9,140,371,113